Colonials Fall to Spiders, 4-1

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.– The sixth-seeded George Washington women’s tennis team fell to third-seeded Richmond, 4-1, in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Championship on Friday afternoon at the Boar’s Head Sports Club.

The Colonials took a 1-0 lead after securing the doubles point, but the Spiders claimed victories at the Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5 singles spots to take the match. GW closes out the season with an overall record of 16-7 and a 3-3 mark in the A-10.

GW opened Friday’s match with wins at Nos. 1 and 3 doubles to jump out to an immediate 1-0 lead. The first-flight duo of junior Mimi Hamling and senior Zoe Krohn defeated Richmond’s Helen Cunningham and Alex Smyth, 9-7, while the No. 3 pair of seniors Jacqueline Corba and Meg Tyner earned an identical 9-7 decision over Nil Horoz and Joanna Matuszczyk.

It marked the third consecutive year that GW advanced to the quarterfinals and the third straight year bowing out to Richmond at the A-10 Championship. The Colonials fell to the Spiders in the 2010 title match and the 2011 quarters.

The Colonials will graduate three seniors this season - Corba, Tyner and Krohn - and are slated to return five members to their lineup in 2012-13.